Reliable Source: September 20, 2009 - September 26, 2009

Washington lobbyist Edwina Rogers, center, was shadowed by a camera crew at last weekend's America's Polo Cup DC Fall Classic. (Photo courtesy of Matt Dornic) Is it fair to assume that striking ladies of a certain age being followed...

Fred Smoot and Summer Joy Hughes in Miami. (Courtesy of Summer Joy Hughes) Our bad! Earlier this week, we told you about Redskin Fred Smoot putting his Great Falls mansion up for sale, which we reasoned was because "a...

Roy Lichtenstein's "Bedroom at Arles" (National Gallery of Art, Collection of Robert and Jane Meyerhoff) A constellation of modern art stars -- including Jasper Johns, Frank Stella, Ellsworth Kelly and Brice Marden -- made a rare appearance in Washington...

A detail from Scott Brown's June 1982 Cosmo centerfold. He was 22. (Courtesy of Cosmopolitan magazine) Kids, be careful of posting embarrassing pictures on the Internet, because someday they'll come back to haunt you ... Scratch that. Even pictures...

Wale performs at the Virgin Mobile FreeFest in August. (Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images) "just had to take artistic integrity off the album.*sigh*" -- Wale, D.C.'s own next-big-thing rapper (first full-length album coming out in November) in a Twitter posting Tuesday...

Freddie Prinze Jr. and Sarah Michelle Gellar (AP Photo/Nathan Strange, file) Confessing: Mackenzie Phillips, 49, the former teen actress who opened up to Oprah and People on Wednesday about a decade-long incestuous affair with her dad, the late Mamas...

Joe Torre (Jacob de Golish/Getty Images) "There are more people here than at the ballpark." -- Dodgers manager Joe Torre, upon walking into a reception at PhRMA's D.C. lobbying headquarters Wednesday (he's a prostate cancer survivor/advocate) and finding, oh,...

President George W. Bush meets with his speechwriting team. Matt Latimer is seated on the couch, to Bush's left. (White House photo) You've got to wonder why Matt Latimer wrote "Speech-Less: Tales of a White House Survivor." Sure, he...

Tommy Lasorda stands with his portrait at the National Portrait Gallery. (Reuters/Larry Downing) Tommy Lasorda celebrating his 82nd birthday at downtown power spot Il Mulino on Monday night. Bud Selig, Joe Torre, the Lerner family and a ton of...

Jenny Sanford (AP Photo/Alice Keeney, file) Jenny Sanford will follow in the footsteps of fellow wronged-political-wife Elizabeth Edwards with an "inspirational" tell-all to be released by Ballantine Books next May. The former investment banker will grapple with "the universal...

Former Miss Virginia Tara Wheeler gets her head shaved by her mother, Alicia Wheeler, to mark the end of her campaign to raise money for a pediatric cancer charity. (Amy Argetsinger/The Washington Post) All right, America. You finally have...

The caladiums planted by the "Phantom Planter" are visible among the ivy in the security barriers outside the Israeli Embassy. (Amy Argetsinger/The Washington Post) Last spring, a lone operative breached the security barriers outside the Israeli Embassy and covertly...

Tina Fey poses with her latest Emmy. (Jason Merritt/Getty Images) The Emmys! Last night's award show -- read all about it here, peruse red carpet photos here -- was full of old standbys: "30 Rock" reigns supreme as best...

Ralph Nader, newbie novelist. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP) Last May, independent publisher Dan Simon received a manuscript from a first-time novelist. It took two weeks to get through the tome, after which he called the author. Would the novelist be willing...

British Ambassador Nigel Sheinwald, left, greets Helen Mirren and her husband, director Taylor Hackford, at the embassy dinner. (Photo by Carrie Dorean) One in an occasional series of dispatches from parties you should have crashed. Event: British Embassy's post-show...

Newsom and Siebel on their wedding day in 2008. (Meg Smith/AP) Wed: Alt-country star Lucinda Williams, 56, to her manager Tom Overby, 50, onstage and between sets before a crowd of 1,500 fans at Minneapolis's First Avenue nightclub Friday...